"See, Jordan," Ariel began. "Us all making it out alive raised my expectations of our group. We don't need to try anything fancy if we can all tolerate living here."

She then looked a little glum. "If you've ever played a video game or seen a movie with a premise like our situation though, someone always tries to escape. My plan from yesterday was a preventative measure against that - to make sure that if we have to escape we at least do it optimally and ethically."

"It's not like I want anyone to die here on my watch."

She then heard Jason's paranoid theory. "We'll know if someone is acting off and people can act as a group. With a watch group of four people making sure everyone goes to their room, there shouldn't be a way to interfere at night. That's the issue with a buddy system, though. It only lets us know who murdered, it doesn't prevent it."

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Jaden threw his hands up in the air. "Oh my God! We've come full circle! Ariel isn't trying to make us all kill each other anymore!" He rolled his eyes and gave a little patronizing clap. "I'm glad you're back to reality. Keep that up."

Judas laughed at Jaden and clapped along with him for a few seconds before calming down and turning to Ariel. "Okay, okay, okay. So, wait, are you gonna require us to go to our rooms at night under this system? No offense, but that's lame as hell. Sometimes you gotta exercise those midnight snack-grabbing muscles, yanno?"

"Well, wait, it's not like we can't reach a compromise," Patrick said. "With a watch group, we can see who's leaving and who's entering. So, in the end, it shouldn't matter if you leave your room since we'll know exactly who's where."

Once the conversation died down, Ariel instinct's drew her to the keurig. "Anyway, once I drink coffee I'm going to go down to the library. Maybe we can wind down with something fun, like roleplay? Avery, once you're done with Miranda you should join me."

Ariel looked around the counter to see if Avery drank his concoction. "Shit, I really wanted to try that," she said quietly in hopes of no one noticing her.

He nodded as Patrick spoke and then added, "Let's organize our watch group. Perhaps we should split it into an early night and late night watch, to minimize the risk of anyone falling asleep outside of their room. Such a terrible crime that is. I volunteer." The scout said, raising his hand as an example.

"Yes! The library, that's the perfect way to schedule watches- Oh." He realized what Ariel was talking about and sighed, "Or play games, sure."

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"Cobby..." Lux trailed off. For a rare moment in their life, they were silent, staring down at the egg remains on their plate.

"We gotta look out for each other," they finally spoke again. "Cuz no one's lookin' out for us." They stood up, leaving their stuff on the counter and going over to stand next to Martin. "I can take any shift you want! Rock n roll never sleeps!" They cackled once more, returning back to their usual demeanor.

"I don't mind if we spend time doing important work like that - as long as we know we that it's important to find some sort of emotional release as well. Now, uh, Patrick, you were in the watch group yesterday, right? Do you think four people is going to be an efficient number of people on watch per shift?"

Ariel took a swig of coffee from the Keurig. She couldn't taste any Monster residue, which disappointed her.